Sentence examples for cement apartment from inspiring English sources
Tall grass and purple flowers fringe crumbling cement apartment buildings here.
"He was curious about the small things in life, how people moved on the street, how a cement apartment building could be beautiful, how his mother played cards," Vourloumis told me.
Though many had predicted that an earthquake in Kathmandu would bring the newly constructed cement apartment blocks tumbling down, it was the older, brick and wood homes that, almost exclusively, were reduced to rubble.
Though many had predicted an earthquake in Kathmandu would bring the newly constructed cement apartment blocks tumbling down, it was the older, brick and wood homes that, almost exclusively, were reduced to rubble.
We headed west across a desert landscape, its monotony relieved only by a few sheepherders with their flocks, electrical lines, and, at one point, a dismally vast, utilitarian "new Benghazi" development being built on the plain by the Chinese — a soulless grid of hundreds upon hundreds of unfinished gray cement apartment buildings.
A photograph of Castle Williams, the 18th-century fortress on the island where Walt Disney was imprisoned when he went AWOL during World War I, shows the dowdy round fortress cheek by jowl with a hideous mid-20th-century brick and cement apartment building for bachelors.
The wooden shacks have been replaced by cement apartments and rooms.
As flames licked up the walls of their cement apartments, no police officers came to the rescue, no firefighters arrived.
Thousands of creaky sucker-rod pumps erected as long as quarter of a century ago on the then-empty plain are today hemmed in by cement-block apartment buildings, sing-along parlors and restaurants.
But they have evolved into intimate enclaves of one- and two-story cement homes and multistory apartments where three generations often share the same dwellings and neighbors marry neighbors, drawing communal bonds even tighter.
I spent the majority of the week at Daniels apartment, fully cementing our domestic routine: ordering in sesame chicken and scallion pancakes from Grand Sichuan and watching Hardball.
